John Lancaster Spalding Quotes

It can't be Nature, for it is not sense.

You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y; and so on.

I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

There are clear cases in which 'understanding' literally applies and clear cases in which it does not apply; and these two sorts of cases are all I need for this argument.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind

Knowledge goes hand and hand with truth.

Never argue with a fool - people might not know the difference.

Eyesight should learn from reason.

In what we really understand, we reason but little.

Wise it is to comprehend the whole.

All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.

I'm here to make sense.

Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning.

Knowledge, may it be said, is higher than magic and is more to be sought. It is quite possible to see what is happening and yet not know what is forward, for while seeing is believing, it does not follow that either seeing or believing is knowing.

It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

It is possible to interpret without observing, but not to observe without interpreting.

When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment to discover plain truths or to reject absurdities and palpable contradictions.

Intelligence is not a science.

Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.

A wise man's question contains half the answer.

Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye.